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Most of the energy for AI does not go into chatbots. Using Gemini is not remotely close to driving a car for 2 hours. If a prompt is 0.3 Wh (https://cloud.googl
by spider-mario 11mo ago
Most of the energy for AI does not go into chatbots. Using Gemini is not remotely close to driving a car for 2 hours. If a prompt is 0.3 Wh (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/measuring-the-environmental-impact-of-ai-inference/ https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/measur..., https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversations-about https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversa...), each prompt is closer to using an e-bike for 50 metres.
You could have your morning shower 1°C less hot and save enough energy for about 200 prompts (assuming 50 litres per shower). (Or skip the shower altogether and save thousands of prompts.)
- mark_l_watson 11mo ago+1 interesting
- collinmanderson 11mo agoI think it's also worth comparing to the CO2 impact of consuming meat, especially beef, which is pretty high. (It's the training, not the inference, that's the biggest energy usage.)